(Re-)contextualizing Storytelling with Children in English L2: Mobile-Assisted Language Teacher Education (original) (raw)

2021

Abstract

This chapter discusses how digital multiliteracies and multimodal practices are shared and recontextualised through a mobile-assisted community for language teachers; the case study is about YELL/TELL (Young / Teen English Language Learners), which is a professional online community open to student teachers, language teachers, language educators and volunteer narrators in English L2. The chapter, underpinned by multiliteracies pedagogy and multimodal studies, focuses on Mobile-Assisted Language Teacher Education (MALTE) as a way to support student teachers and experienced teachers in their initial and lifelong development through mobile-assisted learning. We analyze mobile-assisted practices for teacher education in the project Storytelling with Children in English L2, based on storytelling events for children whose native language is not English. We discuss how professional actions performed by language teacher narrators (searching, planning, rehearsing storytelling events, perform...

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